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1954 Gent–Wevelgem
The 1954 Gent–Wevelgem was the 16th edition of the Gent–Wevelgem cycle race and was held on 28 March 1954. The race started in Ghent and finished in Wevelgem. The race was won by Rolf Graf Rolf Graf (19 August 1932 - 18 January 2019) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. Rolf Graf was a protégé of the Swiss cyclist Ferdinand Kübler. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He .... General classification References Gent–Wevelgem 1954 in road cycling 1954 in Belgian sport March 1954 sports events in Europe {{Gent–Wevelgem-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Graf
Rolf Graf (19 August 1932 - 18 January 2019) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. Rolf Graf was a protégé of the Swiss cyclist Ferdinand Kübler. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1956. In 1963, Graf had car crash in Italy, from which he never really recovered, and in 1964 he had to stop his cycling career. Major results ;1954 :Gent–Wevelgem ;1955 :Locarno ;1956 : national road race championship :Tour de Suisse : Trofeo Baracchi (with André Darrigade) ;1957 :Basel ;1958 :GP du Locle ;1959 : national road race championship :Giro d'Italia: ::Winner stage 22 :Tour de France: ::Winner stages 12 and 19 ;1960 :Nice :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 19 :Trofeo Longines (with Guido Carlesi, Silvano Ciampi, Emile Daems Emile Daems (4 April 1938 – 17 October 2024) was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist. He began his professional career in 1959. Daems, rather s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Vandaele
Leon Vandaele (24 February 1933 in Ruddervoorde – 30 April 2000 in Oostkamp) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. His biggest victory was the 1958 Paris–Roubaix. Major results Source: Road ;1952 :1st :1st ;1953 :1st :1st Omloop Gemeente Melle ;1954 :1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne :5th Gent–Wevelgem ;1956 : 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 1st Omloop van het Houtland : 3rd Tour of Flanders ;1957 : 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 1st Overall Driedaagse van Antwerpen :: 1st stage 1 : 1st Paris–Brussels : 1st Brussels–Ingooigem : 1st Milano–Mantova : 1st : 1st : 2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne : 3rd Paris–Roubaix : 3rd Omloop Het Volk : 7th Road race, UCI World Championships ;1958 : 1st Paris–Roubaix : 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 1st : 1st Omloop van de Fruitstreek : 1st Vlaamse Pijl : 2nd Brussels–Ingooigem : 9th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana :: 1st stage 3 ( TTT), 6 & 7 : 10th Milan–San Remo ;1959 : 1st Gent– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 In Road Cycling
Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the , is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Pieters
André Pieters (10 September 1922 – 22 February 2001) was a Belgian professional racing cyclist. He won the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad , previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and holds significant pre ... in 1946. References External links * * 1922 births 2001 deaths Belgian male cyclists Cyclists from West Flanders People from Lendelede 20th-century Belgian sportsmen {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Blomme
Maurice Blomme (29 October 1926 – 11 April 1980) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1948 Summer Olympics. In 1950, Blomme was the winner of the 12th stage of the 1950 Tour de France. Major results ;1946 : 3rd Belgian National Road Race Championships Juniors ;1947 : 1st Military road race champion : 3rd Gent–Wevelgem U23 ;1949 : 1st GP Stad Zottegem : 1st Championship of West-Flanders : 1st Stage 1, 9 & 13 Tour du Maroc : 1st Aaigem : 1st Stadem : 1st Ooigem : 2nd GP de l'Equipe : 3rd Grand Prix des Nations : 3rd GP Dr. Eugeen Roggeman : 4th Omloop Het Volk ;1950 : 1st Championship of Flanders : 1st GP Stad Zottegem : 1st Omloop der drie Provinciën : 1st Grand Prix des Nations :Tour de France: ::1st Stage 12 : 1st Omloop van het Houtland : 1st Roeselare : 1st Wingene : 1st Ronde van West-Vlaanderen : 1st Handzame : 1st Vilvoorde- Houtem :3rd Schaal Sels :6th Overall Tour of Belgium ;1951 : 1st Ardooie : 1st B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Hendrickx
Marcel Hendrickx (21 April 1925 – 15 February 2008) was a Belgian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1949 Tour de France The 1949 Tour de France was the 36th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 30 June to 24 July. It consisted of 21 stages over . The Italian team had internal problems, because Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi could both be the team leade .... References External links * 1925 births 2008 deaths Belgian male cyclists People from Houthalen-Helchteren Cyclists from Limburg (Belgium) 20th-century Belgian sportsmen {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germain Derycke
Germain Derycke (2 November 1929, in Bellegem – 13 January 1978, in Kortrijk) was a Belgian road bicycle racer. Derycke was a classics specialist. In his second year as a professional he came second in Liège–Bastogne–Liège. In 1953 he won Paris–Roubaix. He twice stood on the podium at the world road race championship, second to Fausto Coppi in 1953 and third in 1955 behind Stan Ockers and Jean-Pierre Schmitz. Major results ;1951 :1st stage 23 Tour de France ;1952 :1st Halle–Ingooigem ;1953 : 1st Paris–Roubaix :1st Tour d'Algérie :2nd Road race, UCI Road World Championships ;1954 :1st La Flèche Wallonne :1st Dwars door Vlaanderen ;1955 :1st Milan–San Remo :3rd Road race, UCI Road World Championships ;1956 :1st stages 2 & 3 Paris–Nice :1st Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde ;1957 :1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège :1st Tre Valli Varesine ;1958 :1st Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders () may refer to the following cycle races: * Tour of Flanders (men's race) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Mertens
René Mertens (3 March 1922 – 9 April 2014) was a Belgian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1948 Tour de France The 1948 Tour de France was the 35th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 30 June to 25 July 1948. It consisted of 21 stages over . The race was won by Italian cyclist Gino Bartali, who had also won the Tour de France in 1938. Bartal .... References External links * 1922 births 2014 deaths Belgian male cyclists People from Arendonk Cyclists from Antwerp Province 20th-century Belgian sportsmen {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Ryckaert
Marcel may refer to: People * Marcel (given name), people with the given name Marcel * Marcel (footballer, born August 1981), Marcel Silva Andrade, Brazilian midfielder * Marcel (footballer, born November 1981), Marcel Augusto Ortolan, Brazilian striker * Marcel (footballer, born 1983), Marcel Silva Cardoso, Brazilian left back * Marcel (footballer, born 1992), Marcel Henrique Garcia Alves Pereira, Brazilian midfielder * Marcel (singer), American country music singer * Étienne Marcel (died 1358), provost of merchants of Paris * Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), French philosopher, Christian existentialist and playwright * Jean Marcel (died 1980), Madagascan Anglican bishop * Jean-Jacques Marcel (1931–2014), French football player * Rosie Marcel (born 1977), English actor * Sylvain Marcel (born 1974), Canadian actor * Terry Marcel (born 1942), British film director * Claude Marcel (1793-1876), French diplomat and applied linguist Other uses * Marcel (''Friends''), a fictional m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Kübler
Ferdinand Kübler (; 24 July 1919 – 29 December 2016) was a Swiss cyclist with 71 professional victories, including the 1950 Tour de France and the 1951 UCI Road World Championships, 1951 World Road Race Championship. Biography Kübler was born in Marthalen. He began racing professionally in 1940 but his early career was limited to Switzerland by the Nazism, Nazi occupation elsewhere. He was multiple Swiss national champion and a three time winner of the Tour de Suisse. Kübler's most successful years in international racing were 1950–1952, when the classics had resumed after the Second World War. He won the La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, both in 1951 and 1952, in a time where these races were still contested in the same weekend. He was also World Cycling Championship, World Road Race Champion in 1951, having placed second in 1949 and third in 1950. Kübler rode the Giro d'Italia from 1950–1952, placing fourth once, and third twice. Kübler abandoned t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wevelgem
Wevelgem () is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality located in the Belgium, Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Gullegem, Moorsele and Wevelgem proper. On January 1, 2006, Wevelgem had a total population of 31,020. The total area is 38.76 km2 which gives a population density of 800 inhabitants per km2. Wevelgem is accessible by road (E403 – A19 – R8), by boat (Leie, De Leie), by air (Kortrijk-Wevelgem International Airport) or by train at Wevelgem railway station. Wevelgem is known for the annual Gent–Wevelgem road bicycle racing, bicycle road race which finishes in the town. History The earliest known mention dates from 1197. Wevelgem was home to the Cistercians, Cistercian Guldenberg Abbey in the 13th–14th centuries, which owned grain mills in various locations. From c. 1278 to 1310, abbess Ida was in charge, though Marc Brion lists it as an abbey for men. In the old days, the river De Leie was important for Wevelgem. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghent
Ghent ( ; ; historically known as ''Gaunt'' in English) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of East Flanders, and the third largest in the country, after Brussels and Antwerp. It is a Port of Ghent, port and Ghent University, university city. The city originally started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie. In the Late Middle Ages Ghent became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe, with some 50,000 people in 1300. After the late 16th century Ghent became a less important city, resulting in an extremely well-preserved historic centre, that now makes Ghent an important destination of tourism. The municipality comprises the city of Ghent proper and the surrounding suburbs of Afsnee, Desteldonk, Drongen, Gentbrugge, Ledeberg, Mariakerke, East Flanders, Mariakerke, Mendonk, Oostakker, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
